Talks

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has already yielded deep insights into nature including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Later this year, it will start operating at its full energy of 14 TeV. What will it be searching for? What might it discover? This talk will explore the LHC in 2015 and its beyond.

In describing condensed matter, some well established paradigms have allowed much progress to be made in understanding and using materials.  But in the last 15 - 20 years, new materials, such as heavy fermions, high temperature superconductors, and now charge density wave-supporting materials,  have been shown to require new paradigms in describing them.  While much progress has been achieved in that time, we still do not have  a widely accepted theoretical description of the nature of their electronic excitations.